India in Primitive Christianity, by Arthur Lille, [1909], at sacred-texts.com
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CHAPTER I |
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SIVA |
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His legends being older and not in Sanskrit he has been neglectedFound in India by the Aryans when they crossed the mountainsSiva as the Cobra, and Durgâ the Tree (pestilential Indian jungle) probably the oldest gods in the world.Siva as the Phnician Baal.Esoterically a noble Pantheism fighting with the Polytheisms around.The Siva-Durga cultus rises everywhere far above other religions and also sinks lowerInvents the Yogi and the Yoga philosophyInvents the HypostasesGreat importance of Gaṇesa in the history of civilisation | |
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BAAL |
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Tree and Serpent Worship carried by the Phnicians everywhereThe religion of the Indian jungleBaal in PalestineThe "Star of Chiun" (Siva)The Mahâdeos and MassebothSpecial blood-thirstiness of the Phnician divinityHoly of Holies of Jewish Temple, and "Sanctuary of the Siva-linga" in India | |
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BUDDHA |
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Born of a VirginGenealogiesThe "Flower star" in the EastAsita and SimeonThe Four Presaging tokensThe Prince leaves the palaceThe Bo TreeBuddha preachesEarly biography alteredMâyâ Devi is DurgâDasasatanayana, Siva the "thousand eyed," blesses him when he leaves the palaceOther changes | |
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CHAPTER IV |
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THE WISDOM OF THE OTHER BANK |
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Fine mysticism of BuddhismThe man who was born blindThe Tevigga SuttaThe SinnerThe Penitent Thief"God revealed in the form of Mercy"The Death of Buddha | |
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KING ASOKA |
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King AsokaRock inscriptionsOnly reliable records of early BuddhismNot an atheismImmortalityDharma RâjKingdom of JusticeHelps to expose a portentous fraudBuddhaghosa and the Ceylon recordsKing WijayoDate altered by Buddhaghosa one hundred yearsFictitious "Second Convocation"Mahindo, Asoka's son, visits CeylonVast literature of Siva-Buddhism palmed upon himBrief of modern English missionaries in their attack on Buddha | |
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THE MAHAYANA |
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New godsAll of them SivaA mask of Buddhism on some of themDhyâni or Heavenly BuddhasDhyâni BodhisatwasConversion of the relic cairn of early Buddhism into Siva's Lingam disguised as a ChaityaChaitya worship at MathurâSiva-Buddhism a worship of Siva with "Left-handed" Tântrika ritesIt is to be found in all Buddhist kingdomsRapid survey | |
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AVALOKITESWARA |
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The great Monastery of NalandaThe "High Priest of all the World"Is he the modern Pontiff of Tibet?Siva supposed to be incarnate in each successorSiva and Durgâ worshipped in all Buddhist ritualsGreat revolution effected by King KaniskaStrong remonstrance on the part of the "High Priest of all the World"He declares that the encroaching cultus is pure Sivism and Nihilism | |
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CHAPTER VIII |
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THE CAVE TEMPLE AND ITS MYSTERIES |
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Maurice on Temple WorshipDescription of Cave templesWorship the same in Egypt and PersiaImmense labour employed in constructing themCave mysteries everywhere an object of dreadCicero on themEleusisLucian on the Tree Festival at HieropolisBacchantic Festivals derived from Siva as Somnâth (lord of Soma the first intoxicant)These festivals still secretly celebrated in India | |
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ARCHITECTURE |
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Mr. James FergussonThe "Sangharâma of Kasyapa"Was it Elora?Points of contactKailâsImportance of the head of AvalokitishwaraFound on all Sivan buildings ancient and modernBuddhist arch the head of the CobraSerpent not worshipped in Buddhism until union with SivismFergusson on the LingamCalls it a "Dagoba"Believes the Kailâs temples at Elora and the Mahabalipur Rathas to have been intended for dormitories of Buddhist monksProposition contestedStrange discovery that Avalokitishwara's head is very plentiful on both these old groups of rock-detached temples | |
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THE ESSENES |
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Was Essenism due to Buddhist Missionaries?Testimony of AsokaThe μοναστήριον, compared with the Sangharâma"Apostles of the Bloodless Oblation"Tertullian on the similarity between the rites of the Christians and the MithraistsTestimony of PhiloThirty thousand monks go from Alexandria to Ruanwelli in Ceylon and are hospitably received on the occasion of the consecration of the great temple there. B.C. 170 | |
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THE ESSENE JESUS |
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Was Jesus an Essene?Nazarites or NazareensBaptised by the Nazarite JohnA secret society"Inquire who |
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is worthy!"Essene Bread OblationMiracle of the LoavesProbably an Essene Passover gatheringThe Codex NazaræusThe earliest gathering of Christians at Rome, Essene water-drinkers and vegetariansThe Gospel according to the HebrewsGospel of the Infancy | |
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Twelve DisciplesLove one anotherBuddhist BeatitudesThe SowerBlind GuidesEarly Buddhism, a religion of joyBuddhist baptismal ritesOther coincidences | |
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RITES |
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The Abbé Huc on the close similarity of Christian and Buddhist ritesConfirmed by Fathers Disderi and GrueberReverend S. Beal on a Buddhist liturgyMr. Fergusson holds that the various details of the Christian basilica have been taken from the temples of the BuddhistsOn which side was the borrowing?Arguments pro and con. | |
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PAULINISM |
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St. Paul a puzzleWas he an ascetic mystic, or the author of the theory of the "Atonement," "Original Sin," etc., in fact of priestly Christianity?Up to the date of Irenæus there is no trace of his writings, nor even of his teachingsDid he convert Peter and James as described in "The Acts?" James, Peter, John the Evangelist and Matthew all Nazaritesalso PaulWere they all instrumental in making the water-drinking Essenes drink wine?Valentinus"Left-handed gods"Early Zodiac of Siva | |
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TRANSUBSTANTIATION |
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Gibbon on the rites of the Agapae at AlexandriaProfessor Horace Hayman Wilson discovers similar rites in the |
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Indian booksThe Srî Ka Chakra in the Devî RashyaThe Sacrifice of the Year-god in the Kalî Ka PurânaIts analogy with the Roman Catholic EucharistBoth sacrifices make-believeStartling points of contact with the great Mystery-play in TibetDescription of the "Sacrificial Body of the Dead Year"Stabbed and cut to piecesGreat scramble for the fragmentsNew Year as in Alexandria represented by a baby covered with flour | |
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CEYLON |
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Hiouen Tsiang, the Chinese traveller, on the religion of the Island in his day"Followers of the Great Vehicle"Bishop Copleston combats thisThree hundred "Great Vehicle" monks at KânchapuraWytulian heresyKappooismSiva as Saman Deva Râja supreme in the IslandDewales and Buddhist Viharas in the same enclosuresCure of the sick officially handed over to the KappooistsSekkraia (Sîva as Indra) a man, half man, half stoneSivan "Mystery"The "Inebriating Festival of the Buddha"LegendTemple womenKattragam or KarttikeyaHis power and popularity | |
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ALEXANDRIA |
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Adi-Buddha described by HodgsonAbrasax described by MatterClose points of contactMithrasHis death and burial at EasterAbrasax,an individual, and also the whole body of the faithful, like Sangha, and also St. Paul's "Christ"Points of contact between Kattragam and the Logos of PhiloAbrasax has two serpent legsSo has Padmapâni in the sculptures of JemalgiriClose analogies between Sekkraia and SerapisEach is half man, half stoneDescription of the advent of the Son of Man in the Gospels quite different from what was expected, but quite in harmony with Siva's Pralaya | |
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CHAPTER XVIII |
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OPHIS AND THE SERPENTS |
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Serpent symbol everywhere in Siva-BuddhismUnknown in early BuddhismLegend of Buddha burning the palace of the Nâga KingOn a bas relief of the Sanchi TopeThe Serpent and the Lotus leafValentinusDhyâni BuddhasSaktis or Wives of the Dhyâni BuddhasGnostic AeonsThey also have their SaktisViolent attack of Tertullian on these SaktisValentinus and Fourth GospelValentinus and Serpent worshipThe Gnostic Christos a SerpentCainites and NaasseniThe "Thousand-eyed (Dasasatanayana)" in Alexandria | |
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DESCENT INTO HELL |
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New evidenceFive bas reliefs of the Amarâvatî TopeThey illustrate Buddha's Descent into HellDetails of Amarâvatî Tope imitate details of an early topeTree WorshipTree stem a lingamCairn WorshipCairn a lingamRoman Catholics maintain that their rites give the life of Jesus in epitomeQuestion examinedNot the life of the Jesus of the first three gospelsA "willing victim"Suffers at nightHerod Antipas, the "King of the Jews"An originality of LukeWhy brought inHis dress the same as that of a Catholic BishopThe "Amice," the Hoodwinking rag of the FreemasonsThe spear thrustBlood and waterBaby New Year, in Alexandria and TibetCovered with flourTertullian on "Eleusinian dissipations" |